MANCHESTER UNITED have promoted John Murtough from Head of Football Development to Football Director, and Darren Fletcher from first-team coach to Technical Director.

CRAIG KLINE, Fulham’s former Assistant Director of Football Operations, has been ordered to pay ex-Football Association Chief Executive Martin Glenn £100,000 in damages, plus costs, for “libel and harassment”.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber explains why the club are playing an 'infinite game', rather than a finite one.

DURING seven years at the Premier League, Simone Lewis transformed the way that coaches and coach educators were developed. She tells TGG about the initiatives that were introduced and how they brought about a culture change at Academies.

ASTON VILLA manager Dean Smith says the club believe in two-way learning, where the coaches gain knowledge from the players as well as vice versa.

KATE BAKER, the Head of Performance Insight at the Football Association, has left the organisation after three years to become Director of Performance at UK Sport.

FILIPPO GIRALDI has admitted that Watford “are not a club that leaves the coach alone and lets him get on with the job” in his first interview since leaving his job as Technical Director at Vicarage Road.

AZ ALKMAAR Sport Development Director Marijn Beuker outlines how the club outperform their budget by thinking differently.

FORMER West Ham Head of Player Care Hugo Scheckter explains why the role has evolved from being "a person who sits in an office at the training ground to the manager’s key non-footballing contact.”

ASTON VILLA have again hired a senior member of staff from FC Copenhagen, with Frederik Leth joining the Premier League outfit as Head of Football Research.

FORMER Swindon Town manager Iffy Onuora has been appointed as the Premier League’s first Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and will start the role in April.

Hiring for diversity is a business imperative and often means hiring for potential, argue Anna Edwards and David Slemen of Elite Performance Partners.